X-Git-Url: http://pilppa.org/gitweb/gitweb.cgi?a=blobdiff_plain;f=security%2FKconfig;h=49b51f964897dcb7133be9b58f1b936462bb6309;hb=5610bd1524332fe7d651eb56cc780e32763a2ac3;hp=5dfc206748cfbd76f2e1f3114515aba7294cf67c;hpb=26b6f2236615649a0ae6a0de2e9e71a2f9ffeba7;p=linux-2.6-omap-h63xx.git diff --git a/security/Kconfig b/security/Kconfig index 5dfc206748c..49b51f96489 100644 --- a/security/Kconfig +++ b/security/Kconfig @@ -113,10 +113,12 @@ config SECURITY_DEFAULT_MMAP_MIN_ADDR from userspace allocation. Keeping a user from writing to low pages can help reduce the impact of kernel NULL pointer bugs. - For most users with lots of address space a value of 65536 is - reasonable and should cause no problems. Programs which use vm86 - functionality would either need additional permissions from either - the LSM or the capabilities module or have this protection disabled. + For most ia64, ppc64 and x86 users with lots of address space + a value of 65536 is reasonable and should cause no problems. + On arm and other archs it should not be higher than 32768. + Programs which use vm86 functionality would either need additional + permissions from either the LSM or the capabilities module or have + this protection disabled. This value can be changed after boot using the /proc/sys/vm/mmap_min_addr tunable.